The Post’s Steve Serby chatted with the Mets’ 31-year-old left fielder who signed a four-year contract worth a guaranteed $66 million.

Q: Is this Mets team a playoff team?

A: I don’t see how it can’t be. Our goal in this clubhouse isn’t to be .500 or to do well.

Q: What do you like best about this team?

A: I like the camaraderie. A lot of people tried to paint a grim picture. I haven’t seen any of it.

Q: What won’t New York fans say about you?

A: Hopefully that I’m showy on the field, and that’s not a slight to anybody. There’s a difference between pumping your fist if you hit a home run . . . as far as showing people up, I respect the game too much.

Q: Scouting report on Jason Bay?

A: I bring a little bit of everything, but I don’t feel I’m gonna wow you in any department. I’ve got some power, but I don’t consider myself a power hitter. Nothing’s gonna put me in Baseball America for the best this or that.

Q: Are you ready to hit 30 home runs again?

A: At the end of the day, my job is to drive in runs and get on base. That’s what I was brought in for, and what I’d like to do.

Q: David Wright?

A: A great guy on and off the field. He means a lot to the city of New York and to this team.

Q: Have you gotten a sense for how intense he is?

A: Everybody’s intense in their own way. He can be laughing and jovial, and he can instantly go into that mode. Not everyone can do that.

A: I don’t think you need to designate somebody and put the “C” on their jersey. You don’t need to anoint one person and say, “He’s your guy.”

Q: Jose Reyes?

A: He brings so much more with his energy, whether it’s on the field or in the clubhouse . . . probably more than people understand.

Q: Johan Santana?

A: Not what I was expecting at all. I thought Johan was that dead-serious-all-the-time guy. He jokes around. . . . He’s human.

Q: Jeff Francoeur?

A: Still talking.

Q: Being a smalltown (Trail, British Columbia) guy under the bright New York lights?

A: It doesn’t bother me after being in Boston and getting a taste of it. I’m still the same guy. I try to be the same guy day in and day out. If I didn’t think I could handle the market or I wasn’t gonna like it, I wouldn’t be here.

Q: Best baseball moment?

A: Getting to the big leagues. My path to get here wasn’t a straight line. I think I overcame a lot just to get here.

Q: Worst baseball moment?

A: When I was 16, I squared around to bunt and I got smoked right in the earhole. Knocked me down, knocked me out. I said, “I’m fine, leave me alone.” I got up and started running down the third-base line.

Q: Replacing Manny Ramirez?

A: I never took it as I was traded straight-up for Manny Ramirez. If I played there with him, it would have been tough to meet those expectations. I kinda ignored it. I consider myself a realist. I can only control what I can control. I can’t do anything about it. We move on to the task at hand.

Q: You met Bobby Orr?

A: Somewhat uncomfortably, yes.

Q: You missed him when he visited the Red Sox clubhouse before a game, so what happened?

A: I ran out to my position, and who comes out of the Green Monster in the fourth inning? “Holy [bleep], it’s Bobby Orr!” I’m like, “There’s a game going on here.” He was just as uncomfortable as I was. It was pretty cool nonetheless.

Q: Team Canada winning the gold medal over the Team USA?

A: The headlines at home would have been terrible had Canada not won.

Q: Good thing you were around for the curling.

A: I had to explain all the rules; I was easily the go-to curling guy.

Q: Favorite childhood memory?

A: The Little League World Series.

Q: Why? Taiwan beat you 20-1.

A: ’Cause we scored a run (chuckles). We were the only team to score a run off them, and they were 14, 15 years old. They were definitely men playing against boys at the time. Four or five years later, they got busted for overage players.

Q: How did you do in that game?

A: I was the one who scored the run.

Q: You nearly quit the game in “A” ball?

A: I was a 22nd-round draft pick, I felt like I didn’t have a lot of leeway. My first year I did OK, my second year I struggled, and they sent me down a level. Everything had gone pretty swimmingly, and the first time (I) hit adversity, (I thought) I might go on my terms before they tell me I’m done.

Q: What did your father tell you when you spoke with him?

A: Do whatever you want, you’re a big boy. . . . You’ve gotten this far, why are you gonna give up now?

Q: Superstitions?

A: I have no superstitions . . . we call them routines.

Q: OK, routines?

A: I’ll try to eat the same thing each day, depending on how the day before went. If I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at

6 o’clock and had three hits, I’d do it again.

Q: Did you get down on your knees when you proposed to your wife (Kristen)?

A: In all actuality, I never did, and she still busts my chops to this day. I was looking around for something in my luggage. I said, “I think you know what I’m doing.” I think she said, “About time” instead of “Yes.”

Q: Hobbies?

A: I have two little girls, (Addison) three years old and (Evelyn Jane) 18 months old, they take up quite a bit of my time. I enjoy a good bottle of red wine (from Cliff Lede’s winery in Napa).

Q: Boyhood idols?

A: Eric Davis and Trevor Linden.

Q: Favorite movie?

A: “Gladiator.”

Q: Favorite actor?

A: Edward Norton.

Q: Favorite actress?

A: Kate Beckinsale.

Q: Favorite entertainer?

A: Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam.

Q: Favorite meal?

A: A good-old-fashioned steak.

Q: Goals?

A: Play in as many games as I can. Everything else will take care of itself.

Q: What drives you?

A: You play with pride. You play for the way people think about you, good or bad. I want people to say, “Jason Bay was a pretty good baseball player.” . . . Being a good person when this is all said and done. That lasts longer.